Heart of the Beast

A Novel

By: Joyce Weatherford

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Paperback | 4 September 2002 | Edition Number 1

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384 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 2.29

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In her remarkable debut, Joyce Weatherford writes with raw power, muscular beauty, and firsthand experience about life in the twentieth-century American West.

Twenty-eight-year-old Iris Steele has just inherited her family''s ranch in northeast Oregon. It is the ranch where she grew up herding cattle and harvesting wheat, and where her brother and father both died. It is also, it turns out, land that the Nez Percé Indians now claim is rightfully theirs. As Iris begins to piece together the property''s legitimate ownership, she unearths not only her family''s turbulent history, but also two centuries of tortured relationships between homesteaders and Native Americans. Struggling with a new crop and a fragile romance, she must ultimately confront the true nature of her legacy.

In astonishing language, Joyce Weatherford combines unflinching descriptions of ranch life with the sensuous beauty of the Oregon landscape. Part romance, mystery, courtroom drama, and history, Heart of the Beast is a family saga of epic power and import.

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Sybil Downing The Denver Post A family's driving obsession with the land that has bound it together for generations is explored with stunning insight and literary skill...Heart of the Beast is an all-around winner.

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